UNIVERSITY PARK — With the start of the 2018 NCAA Div. 1 Wrestling Championships just three days away, Thursday through Saturday at Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, word out of Penn State’s Lorenzo Wrestling Complex on Monday was that the Nittany Lions are healthy and confident.
That ...

LEWISBURG — They’ve seen the banners. They’ve heard the stories. They know the history.
The current Bucknell men’s basketball team knows about the teams of yesteryear, namely the 2005 and 2006 squads that won the program’s only NCAA Tournament games. Now, after a second ...

There was a time not long ago when Sullivan County was a basketball afterthought.
Those days, though, seem like they were ages ago because Sullivan has built something pretty impressive throughout this decade. The growth continued Friday as Sullivan defeated Pottsville Nativity, 49-43, in the ...

Few thought Loyalsock could beat District 3 champion Trinity. That likely included the players’ parents, extended families and friends.
Loyalsock never doubted it would win. That was all that mattered. The Lancers might have surprised so many others when they beat four-time state champion ...

Two local high school basketball teams will play in the next round of the state playoffs on each Tuesday and Wednesday night this week.
The Loyalsock girls face three-time defending state champion Neumann-Goretti at Central Dauphin East on Tuesday at 6 p.m. The Sullivan County girls play ...

In what will be their busiest week of the season, Pennsylvania College of Technology baseball and softball teams went a combined 8-12 during their swing in the South.
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Last Sunday at The Ripken Experience in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, Penn College split against New ...

HERSHEY — Jamie Yonkin sat on the edge of his chair in the corner. Not that he was nervous, there’s very little to be nervous about whenever Montoursville’s Gavin Hoffman wrestles.
One final time, the Warriors’ coach soaked in Hoffman working on a wrestling mat wearing a Montoursville ...

HERSHEY — Joe Klock couldn’t let Cole Rhone get out of bounds. He knew the points he was so close to were far too crucial to let Rhone escape across the edge of the circle.
The Muncy senior gave a tug to the Benton senior’s right foot and got him back inside the circle. From there, he ...

HERSHEY — Jeremy Hanford couldn’t hide his smile. The color medal hanging around his neck wasn’t for the place in the PIAA Class AA Wrestling Championships he had hoped it would be earlier this week, but he also couldn’t pretend like he was disappointed either.
Hanford became the ...

A look started it all. Then it was a football connection, a dribble, a fade away and a celebration.
And somewhere Dana Williams likely was high-fiving someone.
Using a play named after former manager, the late Dana Williams, Loyalsock beat Holy Redeemer in the most exciting fashion ...

MANSFIELD — Todd Outman and a Wellsboro player walked up the stairs side by side, with just the echoing noise of shuffling feet, the player solemnly and quietly said, “We had a great year.”
That statement couldn’t have been truer, but no Green Hornet fan in the Northern Tier felt that ...

SUNBURY — The Allentown Central Catholic roster lists guard Emily Vaughan as a freshman, but late in Saturday’s PIAA Class AAAA state playoff opener, the young Vikette played much more like a senior.
Vaughan’s 3-pointer, Allentown Central Catholic’s sixth of the second half, with ...

Matt Coyner kept tapping the ball upward, never letting Northwest gain possession. The sequence eventually went toward halfcourt but Coyner finally secured the ball.
Nate Paisley was covered well throughout the fourth quarter, but kept hitting big shot after big shot. Muncy did not win its ...

Sullivan County’s Jessica King helped lift the Griffins with a 14-point, 16-rebound double-double in their victory over Pottsville Nativity, 47-42, in the first round of the girls basketball PIAA Class A tournament.
The win comes a day after the Sullivan County boys also defeated ...

A golf shaft works precisely like the transmission in your car. The shaft transmits the mass and energy produced by your body to the clubhead.
For example, a dragster needs a stronger geared transmission than does a family car.
A golfer who is physically strong such as, a weightlifter or ...

HERSHEY — Gavin Hoffman reassessed his gameplan when he finished the first period leading by just two points in his 195-pound semifinal Friday night.
Thinking for a moment, he couldn’t recall a time since his sophomore year where he held just a two-point advantage after one period of the ...

AVONDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Martin Truex Jr. won the pole Friday for the NASCAR Cup Series race Sunday at ISM Raceway.
The defending series champion turned a lap at 136.945 mph in the No. 78 Furniture Row Racing Toyota in the last of three rounds of qualifying on the mile oval. He edged Kyle ...

HERSHEY – Montoursville's Gavin Hoffman became the first wrestler in Lycoming County history to win three PIAA championships Saturday when he defeated Bermudian Springs' Chase Dull in the Class AA195-pound final by technical fall, 18-3, in 3 minutes, 24 seconds.
Hoffman was one of two local ...